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25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty

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Message #38 received at 26396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au, eliz <at> gnu.org, 26396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26396: 25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:18:29 -0700

On 04/13/2017 03:07 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    > Wouldn't it be better if Emacs ignored terminal-coding-system when the output
>    > device is a Linux console and Emacs therefore knows exactly which characters the
>    > console can display?
>
> Does Emacs always know for certain?
If Emacs is attached directly to a console, yes. There's already some 
code that does this, by using Linux-specific syscalls.

> What if it is talking to that console via ssh?

Then Emacs won't know, and will fall back on generic terminal code. 
However, the case that prompted this thread is where part of Emacs does 
know and part does not, and the mismatch causes a problem. I'm proposing 
that different parts of Emacs treat Linux consoles more consistently.

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